GenevaLunch » Politics http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:57:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no New bank notes delayed by a year http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/new-bank-notes-delayed-by-a-year/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/new-bank-notes-delayed-by-a-year/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:24:19 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66454 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH/ BERN – New Swiss bank notes, tentatively scheduled to make their appearance towards the end of 2012, are being delayed for a year. The Swiss National Bank says that “unexpected technical problems were encountered in an early production stage” and that it will announce the issue date “as soon as the first banknote denomination [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/new-bank-notes-delayed-by-a-year/feed/ 0 Zurich north autoroute bypass to be widened http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/zurich-north-autoroute-bypass-to-be-widened/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/zurich-north-autoroute-bypass-to-be-widened/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:47:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66178 GenevaLunch.com View Larger Map ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – One of Switzerland’s worst spots for traffic jams will get some breathing space, with the Federal Highway Office approving a plan to widen the road from four to six lanes over 12 kilometres of the A1. A 3,300 metre-long additional tube will be added to the Gubrist tunnel. The [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/zurich-north-autoroute-bypass-to-be-widened/feed/ 0 Websites everywhere dark in protest of US anti-piracy legislation http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/18/websites-everywhere-dark-in-protest-of-us-anti-piracy-legislation/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/18/websites-everywhere-dark-in-protest-of-us-anti-piracy-legislation/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:24:06 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65403 GenevaLunch.com By William New (republished with permission from Geneva-based Intellectual Property Watch) In an unprecedented action suggesting intellectual property rights have bumped up against an access threshold, thousands of websites have gone “dark” today in protest against two draft anti-piracy and counterfeiting bills in the US Congress that the protestors say would harm freedoms online. The [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/18/websites-everywhere-dark-in-protest-of-us-anti-piracy-legislation/feed/ 0 Gold: Swiss central bank expects CHF13 billion profit http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/gold-swiss-central-bank-expects-chf13-billion-profit/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/gold-swiss-central-bank-expects-chf13-billion-profit/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:09:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65217 GenevaLunch.com Taxpayers get CHF1 billion via federal, cantonal budget boosts ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss federal and cantonal budgets look set to receive some CHF1 billion from the Swiss National Bank, which expects to end 2011 with a profit of CHF13 billion. A little over one-third of the profit, CHF5b, is thanks to the meteoric rise of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/gold-swiss-central-bank-expects-chf13-billion-profit/feed/ 0 Hildebrand’s resignation: scandal grows more complex as IT data thief blames lawyer http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/09/hildebrands-resignation-scandal-grows-more-complex-as-it-data-thief-blames-lawyer/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/09/hildebrands-resignation-scandal-grows-more-complex-as-it-data-thief-blames-lawyer/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:17:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65057 GenevaLunch.com IT whistleblower says lawyer took advantage of him ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss central bank chairman Philipp Hildebrand, age 48, has just resigned, effective immediately, but the scandal over the theft of private bank data and the financial transactions of Hildebrand’s wife is not likely to die down quickly. He had worked for the bank since [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/09/hildebrands-resignation-scandal-grows-more-complex-as-it-data-thief-blames-lawyer/feed/ 0 Central banks, including SNB, join forces to “ease strain on financial markets” http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/central-banks-including-snb-join-forces-to-ease-strain-on-financial-markets/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/central-banks-including-snb-join-forces-to-ease-strain-on-financial-markets/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:13:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64294 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss National Bank (SNB) WEdnesday 30 November joined with other major central banks for a series of “coordinated actions to enhance their capacity to provide liquidity support to the global financial system. The purpose of these actions is to ease strains in financial markets and thereby mitigate the effects of such [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/central-banks-including-snb-join-forces-to-ease-strain-on-financial-markets/feed/ 0 Merry Christmas! Sustainably yours, Switzerland http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/29/merry-christmas-sustainably-yours-switzerland/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/29/merry-christmas-sustainably-yours-switzerland/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:07:44 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64200 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – One of Switzerland’s quirky offerings is back, the seasonal Swiss online  sustainable development Advent calendar where you can have a lesson a day and take part in daily quizzes to try to win prizes, in the interest of boosting sustainability. A bonus is the list of gift ideas to spark your imagination [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/03/swiss-indian-trade-shows-fulgarant-growth-says-bern/feed/ 0 Apology for the 1954 Guatemala CIA-sponsored coup http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/21/apology-for-the-1954-guatemala-cia-sponsored-coup/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/21/apology-for-the-1954-guatemala-cia-sponsored-coup/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:45:19 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=62709 GenevaLunch.com GUATEMALA – Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has apologized to the family of former President Jacobo Arbenz who was ousted in a 1954 coup backed by the United States. Colom has acknowledged the state’s responsibility in overthrowing Arbenz. “That day changed Guatemala and we have not recuperated from it yet,” he said. “It was a crime [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/21/apology-for-the-1954-guatemala-cia-sponsored-coup/feed/ 1 DSK, Tristane Banone, will have chance to face off in court http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/23/dsk-tristane-banone-will-have-chance-to-face-off-in-court/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/23/dsk-tristane-banone-will-have-chance-to-face-off-in-court/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:11:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61777 GenevaLunch.com PARIS, FRANCE – The Parquet, or public prosecutor in Paris, has ordered Tristane Banone, 32-year-old journalist, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn to face each other in court, after hearing each in preliminary interviews. DSK, as he is popularly known, resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund while arrested in New York on charges (later dropped) of [...]

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